To:INESSA ARMAND

Written:Written in July, prior to 6th, 1914Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Filth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48.

      Sent from Poronin to Lovran.

      Printed from the original.

      Written in English.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      page408.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

      (2005).You may freely copy, distribute,
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DearFriend,

Ihave yesterday made a walk in the mountains (the weather is good
after weeks of rain), & therefore could not answer yesterday your
letter. I’mextremelyglad that you all are well, no illness,
& that you are busy.

Forthe congress I’d like to beg you to prepare the most important
citations (quotations) & documents againstliquidateurs. Paris & I would help
you.Stockholm minutes—quotations about the underground(No. 3 of Nasha
Zarya,[4]etc.)—our C.O. and major articles against the
			  liquidators.[1]It is possible that you will be obliged to be member of the “conference”
(of all “fractions”) & to act publicly as accusator of liquid. &
as a partisan (more than this: as a representative) of the C.C.

About“thrashing” of Alex. I’ve written not a word to Parisians &
will not write. But... have you seen the cutting I’ve sent
				you?[2]Nik. Vas. was wrong: he hashelpedAx-ky,
who will now play a role of a “victim”. It is clear. Boycott & common
resolution. That’s good. Thrashing is bad: nowalloutsiders[3]will beagainstNik. Vas. And the “moeurs” in the emigration
would get quite hooligan, if thrashing would get common.... Resolutions,
boycott—that is thesingleconvenient measures....

Nothingnew here. Guests not yet arrived. The wife of Grigory still ill
in hospital.

Yourstruly, truly,V. I.Wishing you all good & best....

[1]["*"DUPLICATE1 OF 2.]Words in italics marked with an asterisk are in Russian in the
original.—Ed.

[2]Thisrefers to Alexinsky’s open letter published inNashe Rabochaya
GazetaNo. 41 for June 21, 1914.—Ed.

[3]["*"DUPLICATE2 OF 2.]Words in italics marked with an asterisk are in Russian in the
original.—Ed.

[4]Thisrefers to the minutes of the Fourth (Unity) Congress of the
R.S.D.L.P. held in Stockholm in April–May 1906.

ThejournalNasha ZaryaNo. 3 for March 1914 published
anti-Bolshevik articles by F. A. Bulkin and L. Martov, which Lenin sharply
criticised in his articles “The Ideological Struggle in the Working-Class
Movement”, “Plekhanov, Who Knows Not What He Wants”, “Disruption of
Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity” and “The Bourgeois
Intelligentsia’s Methods of Struggle Against the Workers” see resent
edition, Vol. 20, pp. 277–80, 369–12, 325–47, 455–86).